Today In Responsible Gun Ownership

Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband. Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.

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Really? And I thought he might be a tiny hit man, a juicebox button man. A gun is big and shiny and looks interesting to toddlers. If you put a lug wrench down on the bed, the toddler would pick that up, too. It's just that a lug wrench can't go off and actually kill somebody standing across the room. And this guy was a deputy sheriff. I certainly have great faith in the NRA's plan to arm Waldo, the Middle School Janitor to the teeth and send him out into the halls some Monday morning when he's had a rough weekend at deer camp.